Tactical Simulations Interactive (TSI), a company formed by former Strategic Inc. employees, has announced a new system called "Gateway" that allows players to transfer their favorite characters across multiple role-playing games that support the system. TSI’s first game, Seven Dragon Saga, will support Gateway, and Harebrained Games and inXile have committed to supporting the system as well.

If you missed Saturday's live broadcast of Super Podcast Action Committee (Episode 133), you can watch the video replay on YouTube, or download it below. On this week's show hosts Andrew Eisen and E.
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Tom Bramwell, the former Editor-in-Chief of Gamer Network's Eurogamer, has joined Riot Games (makers of the super popular MOBA game League of Legends) as its new "European Head of Writing."

He joins Jason Killingsworth, another colleague who has rewritten for Edge, Official PlayStation Magazine and Paste, among others. Killingsworth is currently serving as Senior Writer over at Riot Games.

ArtCraft Entertainment’s MMO Crowfall has already reached its crowdfunding goal on Kickstarter - after only three days of being launched. Within three days of launching on Kickstarter, Crowfall has already reached its goal, generating more than $851,732 (as of this writing) in pledges. ArtCraft was looking to raise $800,000.

Former IGN editor-in-chief Casey Lynch has found a new home after leaving Majesco's indie games label Midnight City. Lynch announced via a tweet that he has joined Square Enix. The tweet includes a photo of Lynch standing in front of a Crystal Dynamics sign.

Double Fine founder Tim Schafer will once again serve as the host of the 15th annual Game Developers Choice Awards.

He'll be joined by Capybara Games founder Nathan Vella, who will serve as the Independent Games Festival awards. This year's ceremonies kick off at 6:30 PM on the evening of Wednesday, March 4th during GDC 2015 in San Francisco (at the Moscone Center).

For those who can't make it to GDC this year, both GameSpot and Twitch will be running a live stream of the show.

Yesterday the Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to approve the appointment of former Google patent chief Michelle Lee to the position of director at the US Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO). She still needs the approval of the full Senate.

While previous directors have come from the tech sector (David Kappos was a top lawyer at IBM before taking the position), Lee is an interesting pick because of her strong and very public stance against patent trolls and her work at an Internet-focused company.

Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) is notorious for taking on big fights in the U.S. Senate like Wall street and big banks, so when she goes after someone or something people tend to take notice. According to this Politico article, her next target is the Obama Administration's trade deal. According to Politico, Warren has begun fighting with the Obama administration over the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

Tencent has taken a minority stake in Robot Entertainment, the company best known for developing the Orcs Must Die! games. This investment follows a majority stake investment in mobile developer Miniclip earlier in the month. Tencent leverages its investments in a number of companies to license big franchises for the lucrative Chinese games market where it is a major player.

The very first bit of data from research firm SuperData's new initiative to cover digital game sales shows that games from Activision and Take-Two Interactive have made the most money in the digital landscape during the month of January.

Yesterday several major publications were duped by a supposed remake of the Super NES Final Fantasy game, Final Fantasy Mystic Quest. It happens. But it turned out that the company that supposedly created the game was in fact running an elaborate con.

Earlier in the week we reported that Capcom had removed local co-op play from the PC version of Resident Evil Revelations 2 - despite listing the feature on the game's Steam product page. Now the publisher is apologizing and saying that the listing of that feature was a "simple mistake."

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ZippyDSMlee: .....win8 hates any left over hidden install partitions from other version of windows....only waste 5 hours finding that out...its ahrder than you think keeping up with 4 or 5 HDDS......03/03/2015 - 4:44am

Matthew Wilson: I am going to pax east, any games you guys want me to check out?03/02/2015 - 11:23pm

ZippyDSMlee: No one remembers the days of Cinemagic and Cynergy eh? :P, meh even MGS is getting to film like....03/02/2015 - 8:44pm

MechaTama31: I was about to get all defensive about liking Metal Gear Solid, but then I saw that he was talking about "cinematic" as a euphemism for "crappy framerate".03/02/2015 - 8:29pm

prh99: Just replace cinematic with the appropriate synonym for poo and you'll have gist of any press release.03/02/2015 - 5:34pm

Monte: Though from a business side, i would agree with the article. While it would be smarter for developers to slow down, you can't expect EA, Activision or ubisoft to do something like that. Nintnedo's gotta get the third party back.02/28/2015 - 4:36pm

Monte: Though it does also help that nintendo's more colorful style is a lot less reliant on graphics than more realistic games. Wind Waker is over 10 years old and still looks good for its age.02/28/2015 - 4:33pm

Monte: With the Wii, nintnedo had the right idea. Hold back on shiny graphics and focus on the gameplay experience. Unfortunatly everyone else keeps pushing for newer graphics and it matters less and less each generation. I can barely notice the difference02/28/2015 - 4:29pm

Monte: ON third party developers; i kinda think they should slow down to nintendo's pace. They bemoan the rising costs of AAA gaming, but then constantly push for the best graphics which is makes up a lot of those costs. Be easier to afford if they held back02/28/2015 - 4:27pm

Matthew Wilson: http://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2015/02/28/the-world-is-nintendos-if-only-theyd-take-it/ I think this is a interesting op-ed, but yeah it kind of is stating the obvious.02/28/2015 - 2:52pm